William Gilmore Simms published The Tri-Color; or
the Three Days of Blood, in Paris. With Some Other Pieces in
the winter of 1830 or the spring of 1831. He did so anonymously, and
the advertisement at the front of the text says simply, “The Work, now offered
to the notice of the British Public, is by an American Citizen.” Though
Simms told James Lawson that he did not “wish to be known as its author for a
variety of reasons,” he did list it among his publications multiple times
within his letters.[1] James Kibler suggests that one
reason that Simms may have ...